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Manage user preference

As a customer, we would like allow every user can change is preferences in Cloud Pak UI. At this stage, when a user logon, solution detect language and provide UI in web browser language, end user timezone and date/time format aligned with web bro...
28 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Commitment Support for the GPU and SSD portions of GCE CUDs

Today Cloudability Commitments only supports the vCPU and Memory portions of this commitment type.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Azure Arc workloads.

Hello Team, I kindly request the inclusion of Azure Arc resources to be managed as part of the Parking feature. This addition would enable us to extend the usage of Parking to our on-premise environments as well as other cloud service providers. T...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Submitted

Support for IBM Event Streams 12.1.x

At the official Instana documentation for Monitoring Kafka, the latest version supported for IBM Event Streams is 11.6 and the current version is 12.1.0, I have tested this latest version running on OCP and it works, can you perform a validation? ...
9 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Enhanced Budget Variance Functionality in CFP

We would like to propose an enhancement in CFP to align the Budget Variance Details tab with the functionality currently available in the Forecast Variance Details tab. Specifically, we request that the same dimensions used when creating plans in ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 1

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Create one Smart Alert for monitoring the same threshold for many volumes

Hello Team, Instana offers monitoring of disk/volume usage based on named metric like "/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root" Used disk percentage and for each kind of volume we ask users to create a separate Smart Alert. Our customer is interested in monit...
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3

Datalink Execution Prompt

While executing datalinks, it would be beneficial to include a confirmation prompt before executing datalinks to prevent accidental triggers that could compromise destination data.
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted